Building Life

Three Minutes procession members bowed, and their slogans stopped on their own. Those with the intent to fight started embracing the Muslims. What could have escalated into hostility turned into a situation of friendship. Every human being is, after all, human. When a person becomes an enemy of another, it is only under temporary provocation. If this temporary fire is cooled with wisdom, the person will return to their original nature. Then the same individual who temporarily appeared to be your enemy will become your friend. THREE MINUTES Syed Imtiazuddin Desnavi is an engineer. In 1967, he was stationed in a village called Lonavla in the Pune district as part of his service. One day, while he was praying Taraweeh with other Muslims in the mosque, loud noises were heard from the street. A Hindu procession was passing by the street adjacent to the mosque. When they reached in front of the mosque, they stopped and started playing loud music. During Taraweeh, the prayer ends with Salam after every two rak’ahs. When the Imam finished two rak’ahs and said “Assalamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullah,” the worshippers suddenly became upset. Some people started to stand up to tell the procession to be quiet and move along because they were disturbing the mosque. Syed Imtiazuddin suggested